Tag: Health

Capsules of Norvir, an AIDS drug, roll off the manufacturing line at Abbot Laboratories in Chicago, Ill., in February 1996. (AP File)

Abbott spinoff faces new AIDS drug trial for excluded juror

Bloomberg News · January 21, 2014 5:00 am

EMBARGOED UNTIL 12:01 AM, FRIDAY, JAN. 17, 2014 - FILE - In this April 9, 1965 file photo, Surgeon General Luther Terry testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Commerce Committee hearing on proposed labeling of cigarette packages. It's no secret that smoking causes lung cancer. But what about diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, erectile dysfunction? Fifty years into the war on smoking, scientists still are adding diseases to the long list of cigarettes' harms _ even as the government struggles to get more people to kick the habit. A new report from the U.S. Surgeon General's office says the nation is at a crossroads, celebrating decades of progress against the chief preventable killer but not yet poised to finish the job.(AP Photo, File)

Surgeon general adds to list of smoking’s harms

Lauran Neergaard · January 17, 2014 6:20 am

Senators want awards show to be free of e-cigarettes

Senators want awards show to be free of e-cigarettes

Sean Lengell · January 14, 2014 5:00 am

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 1964, file photo U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry answers questions on an exhaustive report on the dangers of smoking during a news conference in Washington. Members of his advisory committee, are, from left: Dr. Peter V.V. Hamill, Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones, Dr. Walter J. Burdette, Prof. William G. Cochan, Dr. Walter J. Burdette, Prof.William G. Cochran, Dr. John B. Hickman, Dr. Emmanuel Farber, Dr. James Hund, committe vice chairman, Dr. Louis F. Fieser, Dr. Terry, Dr. Charles LeMaistre, rear, Dr. Eugene H. Guthrie,staff director, Dr. Maurice H. Seevers, and Dr. Leonard M. Scdhuman. (AP Photo)

AP WAS THERE: ’64 US report ties smoking to cancer

Frank Carey · January 10, 2014 11:07 pm

The nutrition information is shown on the back of a Campbell's Chicken Noodle soup can in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2014. Some of the nation's largest food companies have cut their calories by the trillions according to a new study. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Food industry cuts calories four-fold over pledge

MARY CLARE JALONICK · January 9, 2014 10:42 pm

New York's highest court says an upstate medical clinic isn't liable for a nurse revealing a man's sexually transmitted disease to his girlfriend since it was outside her duties and violated clinic policy. (Photo: Thinkstock)

New York court rejects liability for STD disclosure

Associated Press · January 9, 2014 5:00 am

FDA approves diabetes drug with new approach

FDA approves diabetes drug with new approach

Matthew Perrone · January 8, 2014 6:01 pm

Feds crack down on 4 bogus weight loss aids

Feds crack down on 4 bogus weight loss aids

Matthew Perrone · January 7, 2014 8:40 pm

Regulations are preventing a number of startup companies from providing patients with access to potentially vital genetic information. (Thinkstock)

Red tape stifles genetics-based advances in women’s health

Bethany Mandel · January 6, 2014 5:00 am

VIDEO: Glenn Close visits Capitol Hill to talk mental health

Washington Examiner · December 18, 2013 5:00 am

Blair Roberts, a 22-year-old sales associate at Colorado E-Smokes, demonstrates the use of a electronic cigarette and the smokelike vapor that comes from it at an E-Smokes store in Aurora, Colo. (AP File)

Senators call for probe of e-cigarette marketing

Sean Lengell · December 18, 2013 5:00 am

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Court won’t hear appeal over biotech news release

Washington Examiner · December 16, 2013 5:00 am